373.12 PROOF OF REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
   (a)   No operator of a bicycle or motorized bicycle shall fail to display his registration card or produce satisfactory proof that such bicycle or motorized bicycle has been registered upon the demand of any police officer. If the operator of a bicycle or motorized bicycle does not have the registration card on his person, the police officer shall order him to produce it at the Police Department within twenty-four hours. If the operator fails to do so within the allotted twenty-four hour period, the operator shall be charged with a violation of this section.
   (b)   No purchaser or transferee of any bicycle or motorized bicycle shall fail to apply for a registration card and license tag within two weeks from the date of such purchase or transfer.
   (c)   In the event that a bicycle or motorized bicycle does not have a serial number stamped on the frame or if such number is illegible, the Police Department shall cause to have stamped an identification number on the frame of such bicycle or motorized bicycle.
   (d)   No person shall purposely, knowingly or recklessly remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter the number of any bicycle or motorized bicycle frame or remove, destroy or mutilate or alter any license tag or registration card during the time in which such license tag or registration card is operative.
   (e)   In the case of the loss or destruction of a license tag or registration card a replacement must be obtained.
(Ord. 83-36. Passed 11-7-83.)